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I'm turning my house, built in the 70's, into a smart-home: I'm going solar, its got an amazing garden, we have access to deep water reserves, and we're going o
by mmjaa 9y ago
I'm turning my house, built in the 70's, into a smart-home: I'm going solar, its got an amazing garden, we have access to deep water reserves, and we're going off the grid.
The hoops to jump through for all of this really are quite insurmountable in some aspects. There really is a need for it - and where I think this is going to be of great benefit to the broader public, is when we get smart-houses going through the same Moores-law iterations that computers went through.
Hell yeah I wanna know how much energy I harvested from the sun and wind and rain this month. No, I don't want it available on the cloud, to anyone else. Yes, I do want a system I can maintain and control myself - definitely I don't want to have a system in my house which is closed off in order to protect the self-interests of other entities.
Its a huge new realm for computing, this off-grid stuff. I really hope the grid'ists don't fuck it up.